Guest Drifter Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 (edited) Hi, Hope I am posting this on the right place as I am new to this forum.... For the last 2 months I was using Mandriva 2005LE and last week I changed to mandriva 2006 RC2. It was a fresh installation. But I am facing some problems here. The first one is I am unable to share any folder.... this is the error I am getting. "An error occurred while trying to share folder '/home/drifter/Windows'. Make sure that the Perl script 'fileshareset' is set to suid root." The Linux PC is networked using samba with XP and I can see XP shares and Mdkgroup from my XP PC... Looks like this is new...this package is not there in 2005LE..... Could someone help me on this please.... Thanks [moved from Networking by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)] Edited September 30, 2005 by Drifter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 > Hope I am posting this on the right place as I am> new to this forum.... Yes, this is the right place for cooker comments and questions. > For the last 2 months I was using Mandriva 2005 LE > and last week I changed to mandriva 2006 RC2. It was > a fresh installation. But I am facing some problems here. 2006 RC2 ( as in Release Candidate 2 ) > The first one is I am unable to share any folder.... The number of bugs fixed from RC1 -> RC2 was nearly 200 and the number of changes was 3616. Since the release of RC2 I suggest that Mandriva Development team is doing some soul searching on their schedule. I myself found one serious bug in RC2 and that has been acknowledged. But all has gone silent since I submitted my thing. Best is to get involved and understand how to use: http://qa.mandriva.com/ I'm still learning how to navigate around in it but I understand enough about it to find out if what I found others found the same. I recommend staying on Mandriva 2005 LE. It's a stable, reliable and robust platform. Give the 2006 thing time to work itself out before committing your important applications to it. 2006 "cooker" is not better then 2005 LE. It's the lets test it and find the bugs version of the next Mandriva release. And there are bugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KurtStraker Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Same problem here. fileshareset will not show up on an ordinary ls command, but in IceWM or Gnome it shows up in usr/bin/ and the script is used to share directories. You need to change suid so an ordinary user can run it with root privileges. This I have not quite figured out yet. When I check properties it seems fileshareset has the right permissions. I hope you understand permissions mask and the bits AAABBBCCCDDD etc. ( I dont fully) You want to set fileshareset to -rwsr-xr-x and here is what the book says (Linux Complete Second Edition) for an executable file named report. [ramon]$ sudo chown root:root report [ramon]$ sudo chmod 4755 report [ramon]$ ls -l report -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root I havent had the courage to try it yet and I am not even sure I know how to unhide fileshareset so I can chmod it. Will let you know results. BTW you can share directories if you login as root but only root's directories. you could then change the permissions on your user's home directory to allow root to change it then let root share it, I think. Let me know if any of this works Kurt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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